How Prime Ministers Fall (TRIH ep 193)
1956 · Resource
Recorded on the evening of 6 June, this special Rest Is History episode frames the Conservative confidence vote in Boris Johnson as the latest in a long line of prime ministerial downfalls. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook compile a top-ten of dramatic exits — from Robert Walpole's 1742 forced resignation and Lord North's fall after Yorktown, to the assassination of Spencer Percival, Robert Peel's defeat over the Corn Laws, Herbert Asquith's ousting in World War I, Neville Chamberlain's Norw...
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